Böcker i The Life and Stories of Jaime Cruz-serien

★★★★★ "Desert Delight!" - Reader Review___Jaime Cruz is a native Californian whose dream of the good life has ended in abject failure.With little more than peanut butter and an old Ranger pickup, he heads to a west Texas town he's only seen in a movie where he longs to find a new life and some glimmer of hope he's ever really known.What he finds in this remote, desert town is a host of characters that slowly work him into their lives as he works them into his own.Jaime can't conceive of a plan for his life-instead he takes each day as it comes.In the captivating, generous and unpretentious lives of the people of his adopted home, he finds that humor, solace, joy and dignity abound!

★★★★★ "Jaime's story, simply put, makes me happy." - Reader Review___Now a gen-u-ine cowboy, firmly rooted in far west Texas, Jaime Cruz tells the stories of his life as a member of the Geermann-Schlatter family.He waits to see if any of the seeds he cast to the wind in writing to his own estranged family take root.The Schlatters deal with their continued disappointment in their son, Brett, as it seems his life becomes evermore distant from his roots and his own children. Sallie's humor and connection to the natural world continue to nurture "the boys" and inspires the next generation.And still lamenting the actions that drove her oldest son away, Betsy says, "If there isn't a story in the Bible about a prodigal mother, there ought to be."In this sequel to Tumbleweed and Dreams, Jaime embraces the joys, meets the challenges and faces the shocks with his adopted family now woven so intricately into his own life.